Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The brokerage on Thursday launched Accelerate , an incentive program that helps agents maximize their revenue share earning potential during their first year with the brokerage. The program is available in all 24 countries where eXp Realty operates and it is open to agents who joined on or after March 1, 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

agent count, meanwhile, fell from 58,719 at end of 2022 to 55,131 at end of 2023. The company’s global agent count is up 0.6% annually to 144,835, due to slight growth in its Canadian agent count and a strong uptick in its international agent count, the latter of which rose from 60,175 at the end of 2022 to 64,536 at the end of 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

San Francisco-based real estate brokerage Side announced Monday that they raised $150 million, ushering in a new phase for the four-year-old company. For example, top Beverly Hills luxury producer Ben Bacal started the brand “Revel Real Estate” under the Side brokerage. How to Diversify Your Brokerage to Weather Economic Hardship.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Aceable Agent is an online real estate school that offers self-paced real estate courses designed for mobile app and web. See our list in this article ) Aceable Agent courses are designed by teachers, writers, engineers and industry experts. The number of required class hours varies according to state law. Free trial.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The third day of the highly consequential Sitzer/Burnett class action buyer broker commission lawsuit included a deep dive into the training materials used by various brokerages and the testimony of three of the named plaintiffs. Ketchmark countered this with the fact that nothing on the slides designated things as a model.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Illinois-based Baird & Warner , an independent real estate brokerage, partnered with proptech firm RealReports , the companies announced Tuesday. The collaboration is designed to allow all of Baird & Warner’s 2,000-plus agents to benefit from RealReports’s wide-ranging property data. “In brokerage still in operation.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients. So let your personality shine.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“The sudden decision on the eve of trial to withdraw three class representatives raises questions about whether the withdrawal was designed to avoid testimony that could conflict with other class representatives, raising questions about the merits and/or the propriety of the class,” the defense motion states.

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The Close

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s sophisticated agents want more from their real estate brokerage than just the basic file review, supervision, and commission disbursement. That’s why successful brokers are providing more and more services to attract and retain productive agents. Providing your agents with leads means that you’ll need to budget for them.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The franchise, which has more than 300 agents spread across five offices in the Puget Sound region in Washington State, is the first privately-owned Coldwell Banker franchise to separate from NAR. Earlier in October, national real estate brokerages Redfin , Anywhere and RE/MAX took a step back from NAR.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Most importantly, your website should be designed with prospective clients in mind, giving them the exact information they need and steps to get in touch. Remember — your prospective clients are glancing through dozens of agents’ websites. Use a visually appealing color scheme that aligns with your branding guidelines.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

If you sold a home and paid a commission to a real estate agent, you may be part of class action settlements,” the postcards read. The firm was appointed as the designated settlement administrator for the suit in 2022, over a year prior to any settlement agreements being reached. Millions are expected to be sent out across America. “If

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the passions that has spanned my career in its entirety is creating exceptional experiences — for agents and their clients, our brokerage staff and anyone who interacts with our brand. It not only makes The Agency a better place to work by amplifying our unique culture, but it also brings that magic into client interactions.

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Inman

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At its heart, the company is a brokerage, but with twice the number of coders and designers than advisers, it's more of a "technology company" than Keller Williams and Compass.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

million agents that are licensed and members of the national association, and only about 6% are full-time, experienced high-volume – facilitating at least one transaction a month – professionals. When we looked at the industry, every brokerage that existed served the 1.3 Guy Gal CEO at Side. “It HW : Let’s go over your business model.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And often your first impression as a brokerage or an agent is your online presence. A well-designed and captivating digital platform instantly conveys professionalism, credibility and exclusivity — and the opposite can turn customers away. First impressions matter, especially in the luxury real estate market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” So how can real estate agents be so cavalier about their job?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Access to a hyper-local agent is more important now than ever. With Wise Pelican, you can try both — it’s a fantastic resource for beautifully designed postcards and letters. Call or text me with any real estate questions!

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Maximum Exposure Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Designated agency in real estate is an important concept affecting buyers and sellers. It involves assigning specific agents to represent the interests of individual clients in a transaction. The scenario occurs when two agents from the same real estate brokerage represent buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

For the well-prepared real estate brokerages, this holds a promising future. The fusion of technology, quick sales and incredible demand from the public have created a tsunami of discount-based brokerages trying to fill that public demand. Our agents focus on branding our unique value proposition which has clients pursuing them.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Lickstein helped craft an AI-powered tool designed to educate brokers and is currently developing a compliance framework. Our agents will wake up in the morning, have their coffee and then look at their phone [and realize that] this AI assistant has been having a 30-minute conversation with a buyer who wants to buy a $10 million house.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Edgerton and Reisinger will have an impact on the global network of 550-plus independent real estate brokerages. Kate Reisinger was promoted to COO from EVP of member services Reisinger’s role will be to design and conduct the company’s operations. million global transactions a year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This tool uses technology from Roomvo , a home design visualization platform. The tool empowers prospective homebuyers to imagine the potential of a home while playing with different design styles. It’s one way Redfin ‘s using AI to make real estate better for buyers, sellers, and agents.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. Our expansion into the U.S. Links to pages with embedded videos receive 157% more organic search traffic than those without.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On Monday, the now defunct discount brokerage filed an appeal with the U.S. In its request for a new trial, REX argued that it was unfairly prevented from presenting testimony about agent commissions to the jury. In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations.

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Real Estate News

JULY 21, 2023

Top Dallas team joins Real; C21 adds affiliates in Missouri, Colorado; Pacific Sotheby's Realty, BHHS, CB Warburg gain agents; The Agency adds design partner.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

While addressing all of these issues is important, should we not have more stories and conversations about how brokerages can capture the most important stakeholder of all? Let’s dive into two areas that technology partners and independent brokerages can align to ensure that demand is captured and more at-bats are won. The homebuyer.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

And I got into it because I thought that experience was broken for the consumers, but immediately realized that agents play a key role in that picture. This is from 2009 — I opened up a high-tech real estate brokerage with actual agents, working through transactions day in day out and really understanding what processes look like.

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The Close

JANUARY 24, 2022

Eight years ago, my partners and I wanted to create a brand that communicated that our brokerage was boutique, current, and fun. We spent thousands of dollars hiring a professional branding team to help us come up with the winning combination of name, logo, and colors for our brokerage. Choose the Right Name for Your Brokerage.

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Inman

MAY 29, 2023

When listing a luxury property, agents must bear in mind that buyers’ expectations are higher than ever. And color can effectively illustrate that designer lifestyle. They want to see a home that aligns with the aspirational architectural content they watch and read.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Filed last Wednesday in the Western District of Missouri, the Umpa suit, named after its lead and only plaintiff Daniel Umpa, accuses the real estate industry of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. who sold a house on an MLS and used an agent from one of the brokerage defendants between Dec.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2021

I saw a social media post recently by our local ‘mega-agent’ entitled: “Breaking News: Individual Real Estate agents added to Endangered Professions List!”. This post compares the individual real estate agent to “a tennis player using a wooden racket” or “a football player with a leather helmet.” The individual agent.

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RIS Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Residential real estate brokerages with fewer than 150 agents should still be able to provide the services and support to their agents comparable to what is typically offered by larger entities. So, what do smaller brokerages need to succeed? Here’s why each specific service is so important to your brokerage.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As someone who worked for a large, nationally branded brokerage for 30+ years, I had a front-row seat to many mergers and acquisitions. Back before iron-clad earn outs and claw-back clauses, I witnessed a time when two days after an acquisition announcement, the entire agent population walked out with the managers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

One option is that NAR and the MLSs can no longer require cooperative compensation, but listing agents and their sellers can still offer the buyer broker compensation if they so choose. It is a situation where buyers need to pay their own agents and sellers have to pay their agent separately?”

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Mauricio Umansky ‘s residential brokerage The Agency is venturing into core services. Through partnerships with Bubble Insurance Solutions and New American Funding , real estate agents at The Agency will have access to mortgage lending services and insurance services for their clients. In 2023, The Agency ranked as the No.

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The Close

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Are you considering taking the leap of faith and heading out on your own, but you don’t know if you should start your own brokerage from scratch or purchase a real estate franchise? In my 28-year real estate career, I have built two independent brokerages and was an investor in two franchises with Keller Williams Realty.

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